Refugee’s Act of Love: First Organ Donation in Italy from Boat Arriving Migrant

2023-12-30 14:33:00

Kebba Secka decided to donate his organs. This is the first time in Italy that organ donation comes from a refugee who arrived by boat.

Once brain death was confirmed, according to the boy’s will, the organs were donated to good works. .

“The heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas and corneas were removed, it was not possible to proceed only to the lung, because there was a contusion,” explains Savino Borraccino, director of the anesthesia and resuscitation at the Cannizzaro Hospital, in Catania. A gesture that the doctor describes as an “act of love”.

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